Ryan Adams: Video Game Columnist

Best celebrity arcade game blogger ever

Last week, we told you that a mysterious rock-star type had recorded a theme song for the blog the Awl and that he was about to become a columnist for them. We speculated that the star in question was Ryan Adams, and it turns out we were totally, totally right. Adams' column about video games, "Long Player With D. R. Adams", debuted today.

Adams' initial offering isn't as straightforward as most of the video game reviews you'll find online, so don't go running to him asking about the gameplay tweaks on the new Madden. The first offering concerns an ancient and fairly obscure arcade game called Gorf, but it's more of a long ramble, with digressions about Danzig and Bruce Willis and the impending apocalypse. Choice quote: "Playing Gorf is like getting wasted, or what I remember about getting wasted: It's loud, it's confusing, there are a bunch of lights going off, people (robots) are shooting at you, you need pizza, etc., then its game over."

There's also a video, which features some annoying Adult Swim-esque animation and an inexplicable laugh track but still manages to be a lot of fun to watch. Adams' dog features fairly prominently, and we see a whole lot of him cussing at the game as he plays it. Also, Adams seems to have an entire room full of vintage arcade games in his house, which is a pretty badass thing to have in your house. Unfortunately, Adams' wife Mandy Moore does not appear, but maybe she'll play Adams at Pit Fighter in a future column.